fribble
adjEtymology Perhaps related to frivol.
1
Of little or no importance, frivolous.
fribble
verb/ˈfɹɪbəl/
Etymology Perhaps related to frivol.
1
To waste or fritter.
2
To behave in a frivolous way.
- The parish districts--and especially their lady visitors--declared that they were neglected; the rector never got a quiet cup of tea in his own house, nor even a quiet placid moment; for the sounds of young people laughing and, as Mrs. Fretchett called it, "fribbling" upstairs would float down to him working in his study, and then he would pish and pshaw, and move his chair impatiently.1897, Stanley John Weyman, “Archdeacon Hodden's Tribulation”, in For the Cause:
- We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later.1984, Guy Davenport, Apples and Pears:
3
To totter.
- Derived terms
- fribbledom, fribbleism, fribbler, fribblish